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Charms Against T00thache.

To put double nut into your pocket,
to pare your finger nails and toe nails
and wrap the parings in a paper, are
! charms against the toothache.
In some parts of Sussex, England,
there is a superstition that if you put
on your right stocking, right shoe, and
right trouscr-lcg before the left you will
never have toothache.
In parts of England there is a custom
of calling the toothache the Glove pain, "
for which the sufferer is not entitled to
any commisseration. Whether he or she
fully consents to this may perhaps he
doubted.
In the royal library at Stockholm is
preserved manuscript charm for tooth
ache, consisting of Latin prayer to one
of the saints. At Bonn on-the- Rhine a
tooth, said to have been one of hers, is
shown in glass case in the Church of
the Saints Day, and the case is dcvoutly
kissed by people of both sexes as pre-
ventive against toothache.
An imperial toothache once made the
fortune of poor barber. The Sultan OF
Turkey, having a touch of toothachc.
sent for the court physician. He was
hunting, and could not be found. The
domestic hunted about Constantinoplc,
and at last found a poor, ragged barber
surgeon. They took him to the palace
and furnished him with proper clothing.
IIc drew the offending tooth, and soothed
the pain of the commander of the faith
full. A nice house and 1000 piasters a
month was awarded him. Chicago Her,
1M
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Managing for Eggs.

In relation to failures in the care OF
fowls, the Dakota Farmer says:
When the poultryman has made his
preparations and begun his operations,
he is often disappointed at not receiving
fair return in eggs for the attention
and care bestowed. The majority OF
failures arise with those who have given
the fowls all they can eat, and, with
liberal supply of ground oyster shells,
ground bone, gravel, fresh water and
green food, no eggs reward the persevcr!-
ing poultryman. The cause of failure IS
that the hens are ovcrfed. 1t is always a
mistake to keep food before them, and,
though variety should be given, care
must be exercised not to feed full
meal except at night. If the food IS SO
given that the hens will not be satisfied
with the quantity they have received
thew will hunt for more, and keep busily
at work. This avoids idleness aud pre-
vents them from pulling feathers or be-
coming too fat. In the morning the soft
food may be given, but it is best not to
give quite enough rather than full al
iowance. Then scatter few grains IN
cut straw, dirt or litter, and let them
get to work scratching. At night give a
full meal. By keeping the hens warm,
busy and in moderate condition they
will lay well.
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Suoar Reefs For Cows.

care sugar beets good for milch cowsY'
asked gentleman not long since. Well,
YES, but not for steady diet. A dairy
farmer in Massachusetts, said he fed them,
without thinking that they would inlure
the milk or butter, and that after he had
been feeding them for while, his Gus
toners complained that his butter had a
peculiar, strong mot rancid) flavor, and
after careful examination, he discarded
the beets, and the butter was all right.
Another Massachusetts, dairyman says that
he has fed from peck to half bushel OF
beets daily for number of years, divid-
ing the quantity fed, giving portion IN
the morning and the remainder at night,
but in both cases after milking, and there
has been no complaint of faint about his
milk or butter. Beets are not used to any
great extent by dairymen in the West, TOR
the reason that they can get better feed
in the clover, corn, oats, and corn-stalks,
at a very little more cost than beets, and
they are aware that these produce good
milk. whereas in feeding beets the great
est care must be exercised, or the milk
IN be tainted with an odor that will be
disagreeable. Time was when beets
formed large part of the rations OF the
dairy COW, but in the days OF fine, gilt
edged butter, dairymen have to be ex-
ceedingly careful as to what and how
they feed.-Prairie Farmer.
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C0njuring Back the Buffalo.

While the Croey Indians have taken
up stock raising in Montana, with re-
luctance, they have never given up the
idea that the buffalo would some day
return to them. They breed and raise
cattle only as last resort. The ap-
pearance of few buffalo sets them wild
with joy.
A regular practice of the tribe since
the practical annihilation Of the buffalo
has been to hold great medicine dance
annually for the purpose Of bringing the
bison back. They believe that these
animals have retrcated to the caves in
response to some order of the Great
Spirit. whom they have offended, and
they will not be convinced th they have
been destroyed. At their last medicine
dance the pow-wow was unusually de-
monstrative, and the head men expressed
the opinion that the buffalo would soon
return. Singularly enough, a few days
later a small herd of scrawny buffalo
was seen near the camp, and the Grows
with shouts, fell on them and soon dis
patched them all. After the sport was
over the Indians returned to camp, and,
congratulating themselves tEst their med
icine was very strong, made more of II,
and continued their incantations for sew.
eral days. No more buffalo appearing
they gave up the task Of conjuring them.
but will renew it at their next dance.v y
Nes xns Sun
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A Secondhand Clothes Market.

As a matter of fact, the Temple
Market is no longer to-day what it was
originally intended 10 be. says Paris let
ter to the San Francisco ChTonife. It is
not even what it was few years ago
that is to say, place for the sale OF old
clothes only. 1t was to the Temple that
all the cast-of overcoats, hats, shoes, un-
derwear, etc., of Paris found their way.
Everything was repaired and cleaned, SO
that for short time it might resemble,
after fashion, what it had been when
new, and it found purchasers among
those who wished to appear dressed be-
yond their means:- 1t was at the Temple
that a workman who had but one shirt
could by paying ten cents exchange it on
Sunday morning for clean one. 1t was
a place where man who had only twenty
francs to spend on his clothing could find
a coat for twelve francs, apair OF trousers
for two francs, shoes for two francs, and
with the three francs remaining supply
himself with hat, shirt and cheap
cigar. Many a hard-working mother
with three or four children to support
with clothes and shoes, and whose days
labor would only bring in four francs,
would save up sou by sou until she had
enough to buy what they needed on the
Carreau. Up there the vcnders were for
the most part as poor as their customers,
and prices were within the reach of the
slenderest purses. Coats ranged from one
to three francs, and shoes from four to
ten sous.
All sorts of things were in those day
sold on the Carreau du Temple. Shoes
so old that the soles and uppers had al
most parted company, coats in the last
stages of threadbareness, hats from
which all the nap had disappeared, cor.
sets with every whalebone broken, soiled
gloves ripped in the fingers and button
less, ribbons and feathers, brass watches,
imitation jewelry, old pots and pans, in
short little of everything, and all was
spread out on the floor in rows with paths
left between them for customers to pass
through and inspect the stock. But now
nearly everything at the Temple is new,
and if you want to find secondhand arti-
GIGS you must go elsewhere, W ohe VI tiie
many shops in the small streets of the
neighborhood, which make specially OF
that line of business. Down stairs, with
hardly an exception, noneof the bou-
tiques contain anything but new goods, fol
the most part of the cheaper sort, and al
though the marchande will invariably
begin by asking three or four times what
they are worth, she does this with the ex-
pectation that the customer will beat her
down to a price somewhere in the near
neighborhood of its real value. Up stairs
there are still certain amount cf second
hand articles, but here, too, they are the
exception rather than the rule, and on
the whole it is not exactly placeI shall
recommend as good one to go shop
ping.
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Experimenting with Oats.

|
L. w. Peet, of Addison County, Yer
mont, writes to the Rural Neao Yorker:
"My own method, which for number OF
years has been pursued with pleasure and
profit, is as follows: Select eight to ten
varieties, weigh the seed carefully and
SOW all at the same date in drills, on un-
manurcd ground of uniform richness;
tend with impartial care At harvest
time make the following record: O
Number of days in ripening; (2) weight
of straw; (0 strength of straw or ten
dency to lodge; 4) freedom from rust;
(5) shelling tendency; (O weight of
cleaned grain; (O quality. This last
item would include the relative hard
ness and thickness of the shuck, as
we'll as the color and amount of boards
adhering to the grain. BY shucking a
quantity of each variety and weighing the
different products in chemical scales the
relative weight of the shucks would be OBJ
tained, while their hardness might re-
quire another test. This process, though
tedious one, has been pursued once or
twice by me with satisfactory results. 1t
fully answer the demands of the above
tests, and a compromise must be made by
selecting the hair of the varieties yielding
the best average, and the following year
substituting new varieties for those re-
jected, and so continuing the experiment.
While accurate and reliable results can
be deduced only after series of trials,
owing to varying conditions of soil, in
sects, seasons, ETC., a few general conclu-
sions have been suggested to my mind
from past experiences: /, That an early
oat is the safest to raise; 2, that no varic-
ty is actually "rust-proof;" 8, that the
horse-mane varieties, as class, are less
productive; 4, that heavy tillering is not
desirable; 5, that many of the so-callcd
new kinds are old varieties with new
names; 6, that the very heavy oats dete-
riorate more rapidly than those of medium
weight; z, that it will pay an ordinary
farmer to experiment on q small scale if
the work is done with care and intelli-
gence-not otherwise.
The Welcome, the Clydesdale, the
White English, the White Belgian, and
the Race-horse oats have proved with me
to be practically the same. Four trials
two by myself and two by others would
indicate that oats, if dry when thrashed,
will suffer little or nothing from shrink
age. -Four bushels thrashed August 81,
weighed -1lGSG 81 81 pounds; the same grain
ON November II, a rainy day, turned the
scale at 1853 pounds. Other weighings
have indicated similar variations in keep
ing with the weather. Two trials were
continued nearly one year. Thus far, of
all kinds tested, the Badger Queen was
the earliest, the Black Tartarian the
latest, the Welcome the heaviest; the
White Zealand the lightest; the Ameri-
can Turnip the tallest; the Vermont the
shortest and the White Schooner the most
prolific.
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Seed Corn and it's Treatment.

In the last annual report issued from
the New York Experiment Station the
large loss sustained in practical farming
and arising from the non-germination OF
seed is dwelt upon at some length. The
experiments carrir on at the station
since its organization gives results largely
in faver of kiln-dried corn for seed and
prove conclusively that seed which is
Carefully preserved not only retains its
vitality longer but gives better results in
planting. 1t is certainly good advice,
and advice which it is we'll for the
farmer to heed, to select carefully his
seed corn from his bin, or, better still,
from the field, and to carefully keep over
to the next season in a warm and dry
place. At the present time the advice is
Certainly justified by the facts at COM
mand, for the farmer to select his seed
corn by taking the best ears, and, after
shelling, or in the ear, to put in a
warm place and allow to thoroughly dry
before using in the spring.
Seed corn when planted too early is
often destroyed in the ground. This
destruction does not come from the cold,
as often assumed, but from other condl-
tions, the most important of which is the
slow termination of the seed and a
vitality which cannot endure this circum-
stance, and also the action of mould,
which grows rapidly at lower tenn
perature than will suffice for the corn.
It therefore holds good in practice that
to those who plant early the very best
of seed is of great Importance; and
what adds value to this reflection is
that, so far far as data at the station
warrant, it can be said with con-
siderable certainty that early planted
corn will usually yield larger crop
than will the same variety planted at a
late period.
Results gained at the station in the
preparation of the land for corn are
Interpreted as slightly in favor of the
compression of the soil. On a large
scale has been noted the effect of bring
ing the soil into contact with the seed
by stepping upon the hill after plant
ing or striking with the hoe, and q
farm experience has shown that the
gain in termination through using a
,Gorn-plsnter whose wheel raA v,sE lie
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A Mean Husband.

The meanest man lives in West Castle
ton. At the beginning of February he
made a wager with his wife that she
couldn't drink quart of milk alone for
thirty days in February. If she did he
was to give her a new silk dress; if she
failed she was to buy him new suit of
clothes. The guileless and unsuspecting
woman finished her sixteenth quart of
milk (after heroic struggle with her re-:
bcllious stomach) before she discovered
that February had but twenty eight days.
The horrid husband, who says: II knew
it all the time" is claiming the wages of
his sin, but we suspect that the tcmpera-
ture will be very low when he gets it.
Nashcille (lA.ed) News.
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Working In the Garden.

There is not only profit in making a
garden, but pleasure. Many persons at
tach no value to the labor of garden
work, especially when it affords them a
mode of healthy outdoor exercise; but
whether a garden be only very small
plot or a large area, the advantages de-
rived depend upon the skill, care, and Ia
Dor of the person who has charge of it.
It is true that, while those who cultivate
hundreds of acres of "truck" can pro-
duce vegetables much more cheaply than
can those whose plots are too small to
permit of the use of improved imple-
ments, the gardener who grows his veg
ctables for home use secures freshness
and quality that cannot be obtained with
vegetables that are purchased. There is
quite difference between the pulling of
a ripe tomato from the vine and placing
it on the table, and the selection of one
from basket that has been shipped over
distance of rail, and which may have
been taken from the vine two or three
days before.
But there is also another advantage in
family gardening other than the freshness
and quality of the small fruits and vegeta-
bles grown, which is the choice of varic-
ties. Two or three kinds of squash, sew
cral of peas, as well as different varieties
of beets, beans, berries, and even melons,
if space will allow of their growth, will
permit of catering to the preferences of
every member of the family. With the
selection of varieties come proper care and
judicious working with the hoe, and it
is in this manner that the younger men,
bers are taught their first lessons in practi-
cal agriculture. 1t is said that the boy
who works on farm where his duties
call for milking the COWS, plowing the
fields and cultivating the crops, does not
have that fondness for farm life that is
peculiar>to the one who is given a small
garden and early taught to take On inter
est in it.
1t is often the case that ladies are bene-
fited by light work in the garden, espe-
cially if they are interested in observing
the different stages of the growth Of
plants, and when the farmers wife, and
the children also, become interested, the
cost of the labor may be really considered
as nothing, while the saving of doctors
bills and the enjoyment of the garden lux
uries more than compensate for the care
bestowed. If every farmer would have q
garden and take an interest in it, it would
greatly add to the comfort and enjoyment
of farming, as well as prove very profta-
ble.-Phatadelphia Record.
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Worms in Horses.

The following suggestions in the Home
stead about the removal OF worms are from
the pen of DR.. F. F. Rice. He says: In
seeking the destruction and removal OF
these parasites it is of first importance to
remember that any treatment which does
not comprehend so improving the condi-
ton of the animal as to render worm life
impossible, is sure to result in failure. 1t
is a fact that an animal in perfect condi-
ton will not harbor worms; accordingly,
let all treatment subserve this end. Let
the food be nutritious, easy of digestion
and regularly given. If mastication seems
imperfectly performed, and the food not
well digested, examine the mouth and
teeth. If the latter are sharp, irregular,
and wound the cheeks and tongue, the ser
vices Of skilled veterinarian-not self
constituted dentist-are required, as thus
condition will alone prevent proper dl-
cestion, and so nutrition. Salt should be
within reach of the animal at all times
when in the stable. Grooming should
not be neglected, ,as without healthy act
ing skin general health is impossible. As
to medicines, given three times daily q
powder containing dried sulphate Of iron,
ia drachms; gcntian and ground anise
seed, of each four drachms. Continue its
administration for one week, and then re-
NIT two or three days. If the bowels be-
come constipated feed roots or linseed
meal until the condition is relieved. At
ter the powders have been continued for
month give bran mash at night, and
on the following morning, fasting, give
one quart of linseed oil. This will serve
to carry away dead worms, eggs, etc. If
there are small threadlfke worms in the
lower bowel, causing irritation, which the
horse attempts to relieve by rubbing its
tail, they may be destroyed by first clear
ing out the intestine by means of CASTLE
soapsuds injection, and following with
injections of infusions of leaf tobacco, or
quassia. Worm specifics are to be avoided,
as, while they may cause the displace-
ment of worms, their action is not con-
tinuous and moreover debilitating.
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planted hill Was sufficient alone to
Justify the purchase of the machine as
over hand planting.
Experiments regarding the distance OF
planting corn Justify the conclusion
that too thick planting is injurious to
the crop. The largest yield was gained
in plot where the hills were 44x44
inches apart.
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A Regular Jewel of a House.

Omaha house hunter-'I thought you
said this house was perfect gen."
Agcnt-''Indccd it is, madam"
"Why, the ceilings have no height al
ALL"
"That's so they'll be easy to keep clean,
madam"
'iAnd the windows are dreadfully
small"
"To keep the sun from fading the car.
pets, madam"
"And there is no bathroom"
"That's to save soap, madam. Omaha
World.
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Brought to Terms

She-John, who is the author of the
phrase 'Man proposess"
He-Dunno. Why?
Shc-Because I don't think he knew
what he was talking about.
In five minutes the day was fixed.
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Mnxerand Over Apniu.0

Repetition is sometimes tho only way to
impress truth upon the mind. Accordingly
take notice that Dr. Pierce's pheasant Purga-
tive Pellets" (the orig nal Little Liver Pills)
continue 10 be onderfully effective In sick
and nervous headache, constipation, indiges-
ton, rush of blood to the head, cold extremi-
ties, and ailments arising from obstruction
0f the bodily functions. Their action is thor
ough yet gentle, and the ingredients being en-
tirely vegetable, they can be taken with i'm:
punity in the most delicate stomach. All
drnoOisfa
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AS q matter Of precaution for the safety Of
employees. work Is suspended in certain Aus
trian coal m mes, in dangerous places, during
O fall Of the la; ometer, having been proved
that the quantity and intensity Of explosive
. ntnfohno
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Lockport, N. Y

Lockport, N. Y.
GENTLEMEN:-I think the medicine pre-
pared by the Pardee Medicine Company is in
fact the best rheumatic medicine now on the
market; its equal is not known. My boy only
six years old was confined to his bed with
rheumatism; got bottle Of the medicine
and in few days he was out of bed andplay-
ing around the house. can cheerfully rec
ommend this medicine to all rheumatic suffer-
ers. J. K. PERRY, Shoe Dealer.
Ask your druggist for DR.. Pardee's Rene
dy and take no other. Price, 81 per bottle;
si1 bottles, IS.
Pardee Medicine Co., Rochester, N, Y.
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EVERY day Parisians consume forty.nine to
fifty tons Of snais in their season. They are
boiled in five or six waters, extracted from the
shell, dressed in fresh butter and garlic. then
replaced in the shell, covered with pastry and
bread crumbs, and finally simmered in white
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A bottle Of Red Star Cough euro made .
thorough and permanent cure Of q cold SO
severe that I could not talk, says Mr.. j. p.
RoaShh, assistant superintendent New York
Central Slevifng tar Compa7y.
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To drive away ants, scrub the shelves
or drawers that they frequent with strong
carbolic soap, after which sprinkle red
peper in every crevice.
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Hon. NJ. A. Foran. Of Ohio, member Of House
Of Representatives, writes that st. Jacobs Oil
relieved him Of acute bodily pains.
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The Weaker Sex

A sTATIsrICIAN says the average age OF Eu-
ropean girls when they marry is twenty-siI
years, and of mon about twenty-oight.
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The product of canned fruits in 1885
was greater Than ever before.
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THREE bull tights In Paris have PRODUCED
tie gross receipts of $41, 600.
Don't Read This
il you have a sufficiency of this worlds goods,
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ceed; both sexes; all ages, All Is new. Capt.
tai not required. Hallett & Co. will start you;
Don't delay; investigate at once, and grand
success will attend you.
Ifyou have numbness IN arms and limbs, heart
skips beats, thumps or flutters, or you are
nervous and irritable-in danger Of shock
DR.. Kilmer's OCEAN-WEED regulates, relieves,
corrects and cures.
ROYAL GLUE mends anything! Broken Chi.
ma, Glass, Wood. Free Walls at Drugs e. Gro
Relief is immediate, and cure sure. Piso's
Remedy for Catarrh. Soc.
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Are immensely strengthened by the use Of DR..
II. V. Picrce's "Favorite Prescription" which
cures all I, male arrangements, and gives tone
to the system. Sold by druggists.